The question of awareness. What is it? Actually, what is it? Not, what is the explanation of it? Is it something that you operate like a muscle, like memory? Or is it something that operates regardless of your action, intent, practice, experience?
Do you ask this question to meet an answer and become knowledgeable? If so, for sure, you will miss the opportunity to find out what awareness is. Awareness has no operator. You may be conscious of it or not, but you cannot be aware of it. It is that which makes consciousness possible—the canvas of consciousness, the totality of possibility, the action of potentiality, naked from actions and objects and benefits and altogether operations.
Why is this said to be that? Because of the nature of questioning. When true questioning takes place, only awareness listens. Knowledge is avoided.
Is seen totally irrelevant to the act of questioning? What is left when knowledge is disregarded as relevant to the questioning? And another way to look at it—the questioning—does it start with awareness, or does it lead to awareness?
And I mean the questioning of self-inquiry, such as that which is taking place now. You start, you initiate, but if you truly question, you do not control the direction of the inquiry. It is not marked by destination. There is no confirmation on the other side of it. There is only the ever-opening space of questioning, which is familiar to you as: ‘not knowing’.
When you truly don’t know—truly, not even remotely knowing—yet your whole heart is given to questioning, this is the landscape of awareness. This is the fabric of awareness. This is the sky of awareness, the nature of it.
So, there you go. It was said. Could be totally wrong, very misleading, distorted. Could be accurate. In any case, it has no value for you. Hopefully, you will question, and you will find out.
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